On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:13:52AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> Not quite. It's not the "PXE level," it's the normal operating state
> of the system. The only difference is that it was booted with PXE
> instead of by some other means. PXE booting is being used more and
> more at large installations. My change addresses a common situation
> which is becoming more common all the time.
>
> Shouldn't the standard dhclient installation function properly,
> regardless of how the system was booted? I think it should.
>
> Also, I don't feel that my patch is a hack. The entire purpose of
> dhclient's PREINIT phase is to put the network interface into an
> enabled state so that IP packets can be sent. If the interface is
> already up, then it is already in that state. By failing to check the
> interface first, the current dhclient-script needlessly destroys its
> configuration and hangs the system. That is a bug, and my patch fixes
> it.
Hear hear.
Joe
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